The Woolf Quality Assurance, Enhancement, and Technology Alignment Committee (QAETAC)

QAETAC is tasked with promoting a culture of excellence that reflects the Woolf QA policy in line with the Woolf Mission Statement. QAETAC is responsible for ensuring that policies will lead to higher quality outcomes for students and faculty members across all levels of the institution.

Quality assurance policyAccreditation

QAETAC formulates adjustments to existing policy, or to its implementation, and delivers these recommendations to the Board of Directors, except where the committee determines that a vote should first be proposed in Council.

QAETAC reviews student feedback gathered through on-going monitoring and period survey, which is elicited at the end of all modules, and QAETAC elicits faculty feedback twice per year. Surveys provide both students and faculty members the opportunity to make recommendations beyond the survey questions.

Woolf’s official QA Policy defines the structure of Woolf as a collegiate Higher Education Institution

Collegiate higher education institutions are not new. Woolf is modeled on the University of Oxford and the University of London.

Colleges have specific freedoms to admit qualifying faculty and students. All colleges are equally governed by the central institution and QA Policy.

The Quality Assurance, Enhancement and Technology Alignment Commitee (QAETAC)

  1. Woolf’s QA Policy defines the responsibilities of QAETAC.
  2. QAETAC ensures the QA Policy is accurately encoded in Woolf’s software system, the Accreditation Management System (AMS).

Committee

The committee responsible for monitoring and improving quality across the institution is the Quality Assurance, Enhancement, and Technology Alignment Committee (QAETAC). QAETAC is composed of two Faculty Representatives elected by the Faculty Council from the membership of the Faculty Council; student input, which is invited by the Faculty Representatives on the basis of student surveys; the Head of Institution (ex officio); the Secretary of Woolf (ex officio); and the Advisor for Equality and Diversity, appointed by the Head of Institution. The Committee passes its recommendations directly to the Board of Directors, except where the committee determines that a vote must first be proposed in Council. The committee holds regular meetings twice per year, and extraordinary meetings once per month, at the discretion of the chairman of the meeting.

Dr. Joshua Broggi, PhD

Rector and Head of Institution

Chief Administrator

Dr. Courtney Nimura, PhD

Diversity Coordinator

Dena Frei

VP of Accreditation and Compliance

Dr. Glen Hicks, PhD

Curriculum Quality 
Assurance, Secretary

Dr. Yajnaseni Mukherjee, PhD

Compliance Officer

Dr. Anvita Sheel, PhD

Compliance Officer

Mansi Vashisth

Compliance Officer

What must be true for a student to receive a degree?

  • College validation
  • Degree validation
  • Course validation
  • Learning validation
  • Grade validation
  • Transcript and credit issuance
  • Student eligibility for degree validation
  • Degree issuance


1. College validation software rules

1. Academic rigour

In general, the ethos of the college should be one of academic rigour.

2. Dean

The Dean is responsible for the academic standards of the college and after the Woolf Head of Institution co-signs degree certificates.

3. Academic Board

A Minimum of 2 academics with PhDs to sign off on your curriculum.

  • They will approve all course curriculum.
  • They will approve of all final grades.
  • They will approval all qualified admissions.
4. Teachers
  • Verified ID and verified Education.
  • Full faculty must have an EQF8 PhD.
  • Instructors must have an EQF7 Master’s degree.
  • Professional Experts must have 5 years of senior industry experience.
5. Approvals

QAETAC must approve of new colleges in Woolf software.


2. Degree validation software rules

1. License Requirements

All degree parameters must match the license requirements, including:

  • Supported by valid college with valid faculty.
  • Degree name.
  • Degree-level ILOs.
  • Minimum education level for teachers.
  • Minimum education and entry requirements for students.
  • Degree structure.
  • Course names.
  • Course-level ILOs.
2. Approval

QAETAC must approve of new degrees in Woolf software.


3. Course validation software rules

1. License Requirements

All degree parameters must match the license requirements, including:

  • Member of valid degree, in valid college.
  • Course name.
  • Course ILOs.
  • Minimum education level for Teachers.
  • Minimum education and entry requirements for students.
2. Learning resources

Each course has rules which must match the license requirements:

  • Peer-reviewed academic literature published in the last 5 years.
  • Synchronous meetings.
  • Regular assignments.
  • Summative assignment.
  • Workload matches ECTS requirements.
3. Teachers
  • Verified ID and verified Education.
  • Faculty must have an EQF8 PhD.
  • Instructors must have an EQF7 Master’s degree.
  • Professional Experts must have 5 years of senior industry experience.
4. Approval
  • Course approval by QAETAC in Woolf software.
  • Minor curriculum resource adjustments approval by QAETAC or College Academic Board.


4. Learning validation software rules

1. Students

All students must meet the degree and course entry requirements, including:

  • Valid ID, valid education pre-requisities.
  • Applied, approved, and enrolled in degree or course.
  • Signed enrollment agreement.
2. Learning activity

Students must successfully engage all required learning resources and activities:

  • Peer-reviewed academic literature published in the last 5 years.
  • Synchronous meetings.
  • Regular assignments.
  • Workload matches ECTS requirements.
  • Summative assignment.
3. Learning record

Woolf logs and stores student learning activity as a part of a student’s educational record.


5. Grade validation software rules

1. Students

Each student must meet all of the learning activity requirements in order to be eligible to complete a course successfully.

2. Teacher
  • When students have fulfilled their workload and other learning activity requirements, then teachers can submit the student to the college’s Academic Board for approval.
  • All student grades and the student’s pass/fail status are provisional until approval by the college’s academic board.
3. Approval
  • When teachers submit students, then Academic Board of the college is responsible for approving student grades.
  • Only with approval by the Academic Board are grades added to the student’s transcript.


6. Transcript and credit issuance


7. Student eligibility for degree validation software rules

1. Students
  • Each student must complete the required number of ECTS in the degree.
  • Each student must complete and pass each specifically required course in a degree.
2. Request

The student or the college may forward to QAETAC an eligible student seeking admission to a degree.

3. Approval
  • Woolf’s QAETAC is responsible for approving eligible students and admitting them to the degree.
  • The signature of the Head of Institution and the college Dean are applied to the degree certificate.


8. Degree issuance

In all things, Woolf values excellence and measures itself against the highest international standards. Woolf seeks to raise those standards further.

Contact information

We welcome your comments, concerns, or questions about this document.

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  • Phone: +1 (202) 932-7949
  • Email: support@woolf.university
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